Fat City (1963)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

"Wax Museum" by George Laine.     California | Pasadena | Independent,
The | 1956-03-15 page A-2 col 3
"You know you're getting old when the kids look down iheir collective
noses at you for saying "Crazy" when things are alright.  Teenager buddy
clued the Museum the other day, "Man, crazy is out of it - you gotta say
'fat city' now." Oh well. "



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> > Subject:      Fat City (1963)
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> > I just wrote up "easy street" and was about to add "fat city." HDAS
> > doesn't have this book (later made into a movie)?
> > Are there any other "fat city"
> > cites?
> > ...
> > ...
> > 6 June 1963, Oakland (CA) Tribune, pg. 30:
> > The winner of the 1963 Joseph Henry Jackson Award of $1,000
> is Leonard
> > Gardner, a 29 year old San Francisco writer.
> > Gardner won the award, named for  the late critic and author, for a
> > novel in progress called "Fat  City."
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